here must be a profit. Or other [wi]se, why should they die in the sun? As to the messengers wehave exch[anged] …do they keep {my} messengers alive? They are made to die in the sun!” (Moran 1992: 38).This says to me that he really was not paying attention to anything that is going on outside the city. He let the messenger site out in the hot sun for hours. He was not a well person. Another one of the examples of Akhenaten not paying attention it is letter from Amarna number EA 4.Did not you yourself seek brotherhood and amity, and so wrote me about marriage That we might come closer to each other, and did (not) I, for my part, write you about marriage For this very same reason, i.e. brotherhood and amity, that we might come closer to each other?Why then did my brother not send me just one woman? Should I, perhaps, since you did to me,And n[ot send her] ? But my daughters being available, I will not refuse [one ] to y[ou](Moran 1992: 8) As you can see here he is not really paying much attention to any one not even his brother when asks for a women. Clearly he is quite busy with other things like his gods and not running the country.As I told you a few sentences back cities under attack would ask for help and not do anything about it. I have a few examples of his not seeming to care about who was asking for help. In the Amarna letter number EA 288May the king give thought to his land; the land of the king is lost. All of it has attacked me.I am at war as far as the land of Seru and as far as Ginti- Kirmil. All the mayors are at peaceBut I am at war. (Moran 1992: 330)This shows me that this guy is in trouble and needs help. The king does nothing to help this guy out. The next one is from another set of Amarna letters I found the number EA 237: [Baadi?] to Pharaoh.Have taken Lab’aya and they have set themselves against the cities of the king my lordThat the king my lord has entrusted to me to protect. Let ...
